We will win the day the Civil Rights Movement, the black athlete, and the quest for equality /
"James "Mudcat" Grant would not sing the right words. He knew they were a lie. Home of the Brave. Land of the Free. For who? Not black Americans. Not in 1960. Grant remembered vividly growing up in poverty in Lacooche, Florida, in a shack that had no hot water, no electric lights, or...
| Main Author: | Moore, Louis, 1978- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Democracy in action : sports and the American dream
- White allies
- The press and the people : the final fight for fairness
- Deep down in Dixie : segregated sports in a post-Brown era
- The ban and the banner : black Olympians in a Jim Crow society
- African American athletes and activism : everybody has a part to play
- The revolt of the black athlete
- Epilogue.